Type | List | Author: Title, Series, Vol/No (Year/Month/Date of Publication), Pages | Status | | 1. | Lester, Joel: Problems in the Neue Bach Ausgabe of the E major Partita for Violin Alone. CurMcol 13 (1972), 64-67. | |
| 2. | Lester, Joel: The Fux-Mattheson Correspondence: An Annotated Translation. CurMcol 24 (1977), 37-62. | |
| 3. | Lester, Joel: Major-Minor Concepts and Modal Theory in Germany, 1592-1680. JAMSoc 30/2 (Summer 1977), 208-253. | |
| 4. | Lester, Joel: The Recognition of Major and Minor Keys in German Theory: 1680-1730. JMTheory 22/1 (Spring 1978), 65-103. | |
| 5. | Lester, Joel: Simultaneity structures and harmonic functions in tonal music. InTheoryOnly 5/ 5 (Jun 1981), 3-28. | |
| 6. | Lester, Joel: The Rhythms of Tonal Music. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986. viii, 284p. ISBN: 0-809-31282-4; 0809312824 | |
| 7. | Lester, Joel: Between Modes and Keys: German Theory, 1592-1802. Stuyvesant, N. Y.: Pendragon Press, 1989. xxv, 240p. ISBN: 0-918728-77-0. (= Harmonologia series, 3) [contents] | |
| 8. | Lester, Joel: Compositional Theory in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1992. 355p. ISBN: 0-674-15522-X. | |
| 9. | Lester, Joel: Reading and Misreading Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin: Schumann's Accompaniments in Eighteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Contexts. [p]AMS_Montreal (Nov 1993) A paper read at the American Musicological Society Annual Meeting in Montreal on 3-7 November 1993. | |
| 10. | Lester, Joel: Reading and Misreading: Schumann's Accompaniments to Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin. CurMcol 56 (1994), 24-53. | |
| 11. | Lester, Joel: J. S. Bach teaches us how to compose: four pattern Preludes of the Well-Tempered Clavier. ColMSymposium 38 (1998), 33-46. | |
| 12. | Lester, Joel: Bach's Works for Solo Violin: Style, Structure, Performance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. x, 186p. ISBN: 0-19-517144-6. - repr. edn. 2003. | |
| 13. | Lester, Joel: J. S. Bach nos enseņa a componer: cuatro preludios modelo de El Clave Bien Temperado. Quodlibet 18 (Oct 2000), 85-99. [J.S. Bach teaches us how to compose: Four pattern preludes of the Well-tempered clavier] Trans. by Isabel Garcia Adanez. | |
| 14. | Lester, Joel: Heightening Levels of Activity and J. S. Bach's Parallel-Section Constructions. JAMSoc 54/1 (Spring 2001), 49-96. | |
| 15. | Lester, Joel: The Presto from Bach's G-Minor Sonata for Violin Solo: Style, Rhythm, and Form in a Baroque Moto Perpetuo. [ce]EngagingMusic (2004), 167-179. | |
| 16. | Lester, Joel: What Beethoven might have learned from J. S. Bach. BonnBeethovenSt 11 (2014), 111-132. | |
| 17. | Lester, Joel: Tone-painting the Mysterious: The 'Et expecto' from J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor. Bach 51/1 (2020), 5-43. | |